Did
the USA/USSR fly a Secret Joint Mission to the Moon in 1976 to investigate a crashed
extraterrestrial mothership?

Luca Scantamburlo, an Italian UFO researcher,
has published online an interview he conducted with a whistleblower claiming to
be a former astronaut on a secret mission flown by NASA and the Air Force Space
Command to the moon in August, 1976. The alleged mission was titled Apollo 20
and was a joint US and Soviet mission that followed by just over a year the joint
Apollo-Soyuz 1975 mission. The Apollo 20 mission filmed the dark side of the moon
where a very large extraterrestrial vehicle appeared to lie wrecked on the moon's
surface.

This
'wreckage' was first captured on film by Apollo 15 in 1971 which shows a moon
panorama with what appears to be a large elliptical object on the moon's surface
in an official NASA photo (blow up on right of AS15-P-9630 - original available
online at: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS15-P-9630).
The alleged Apollo 20 mission comprised two US astronauts (William Rutledge and
Leona Snyder [Both from Bell Laboratories and employed by the USAF but not officially
part of the US astronaut corps] and Alexei Leonov (first man to walk in Space
and Soviet Commander on the 1975 Apollo/Soyuz Mission). The mission was launched
from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. There was an alleged moon landing
by Rutledge and Leonov wherein the crashed vehicle was entered and found to be
an ancient mothership. A dead EBE female was also found who was well preserved
in some protected layering.

The whistleblower, "William Rutledge",
began in April of this year to upload hours of film footage of the secret Apollo
mission on to YouTube video. Scantamburlo investigated some of the videos and
had them analyzed by Italian film experts who concluded they were authentic. He
then contacted Rutledge to conduct an interview by email correspondence.

Scantamburlo
is a well respected writer/journalist in Italy that has commented on many UFO
cases and conducted a number of investigations that have been published in Italian
UFO magazines. My own knowledge of Scantamburlo is that he is a very competent
and thorough UFO researcher who first came to my attention due to his efforts
to verify the Vatican's involvement in extraterrestrial affairs and discussions
between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan to form an alliance against a possible
extraterrestrial threat. These stories are available from his website at: http://www.angelismarriti.it/ANGELISMARRITI-ENG/home-ENG.htm

Scantamburlo's
report on Rutledge demonstrates a sincere effort to verify a number of the details
provided by Rutledge who supplied much information about the secret mission and
his own background. Scantamburlo's overall conclusion is that Rutledge's testimony
and film footage are genuine, and that a secret Apollo 20 mission did indeed go
to the moon.

I recommend that all take Scantamburlo's analysis and conclusions
very seriously. Scantamburlo's report and interview is available online at: http://tinyurl.com/yplpdl
. I also recommend viewing some of the Youtube videos uploaded by William Rutledge
which can be found by typing in Apollo 20. The one to begin with is the following:http://tinyurl.com/2ty5pc
.

My own view at the moment is that it is very possible that such a secret
Apollo mission went ahead to explore the wreckage first discovered in the Apollo
15 wreckage. It would have made sense for that to be a joint US-USSR mission,
that followed the joint 1975 mission. Rutledge's account of his background as
a Foreign Technology expert and recruitment by the USAF to fly on the mission
is credible given the Apollo 15 photograph. It would make sense that exploration
of a crashed ETV would need to be investigated by someone with expertise in foreign
technologies. Rutledge has also given much information about his work background
and credentials online for verification purposes. His background and credentials
can be checked and the other individuals mentioned on the Apollo 20 mission can
be interviewed for their responses to his allegations.

There
are two inconsistencies I find in Rutledge's testimony. First, the Apollo 20 insignia
that is shown in a number of his films only show the names of the three astronauts
(Rutledge, Synder and Leonov) and the name of the Apollo mission. This is inconsistent
with the 1975 insignia of the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission which had both the 'Apollo'
and 'Soyuz', and the names of the three astonauts/cosmonauts on them. See image
on right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Astp_Patch.png
.

The second inconsistency concerns what was revealed by another whistleblower,
Ingo Swann in his book Penetration. Swann revealed that he had been secretly
recruited by a covert intelligence agency to remote view artifacts on the dark
side of the moon in 1975. He discovered extraterrestrial artifacts and extraterrestrial
entities on the moon. Swann deduced from what he had been told that there was
a concerted effort to gather intelligence using remote viewing since physical
access to the moon had been curtailed. Presumbly, the extraterrestrials declared
that no further moon landings would be allowed. This according to Swann (and a
number of other whistleblowers) is the real reason why the Apollo moon missions
were quietly terminated after the 1971, Apollo 17 mission. [For more information
go to: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/exopolitics/message/348
].

If Swann's experience and conclusions are correct, then this does appear
to be inconsistent with Rutledge's testimony that a secret Apollo 20 mission was
allowed to go ahead and land on the moon to explore an extraterrestrial artifact.
Combined with the first inconsistency, this could lead to the conclusion that
Rutledge's testimony and videos are a sophisticated hoax to deceive the public.

On
the other hand, if proven to be true, Rutledge's video evidence and testimony
may be the final straw that breaks the camel's back concerning UFO secrecy. His
testimony, background and film footage can be confirmed. The Apollo 15 photograph
of the alleged alien vehicle is genuine and does point to an object that could
have been the focus of a joint US-USSR secret moon mission. The reasons for Rutledge's
disclosure may be as he claims that he wants to divulge the truth for the "wonder
of it all". He also commented that that UFO sightings will increase dramatically
in September 2007 and this will speed up disclosure efforts considerably. Rutledges
comments and revelation suggest that he continues to have access to a benign faction
within the extraterrestrial management system that desires official disclosure,
and that events associated with September 2007 and 2012 will force disclosure.

If Rutledge's background, testimony and film footage prove to be true,
and simple answers are found for the two inconsistencies above and any others
found, then this will lead to an escalation of public disclosures. More officials
will recognize that the secrecy system is imploding and will wish to be on the
winning side of history as that part of the government that played a proactive
role in preparing the public for disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence.
If Rutledge's testimony is proven to be a sophisticated hoax, this may nevertheless
signify an attempt to raise the public's awareness of extraterrestrial life through
partially valid information. I recommend considering Scantamburlo's report due
to the possibility that this is a genuine disclosure of a secret mission to investigate
an ancient extraterrestrial mothership first identified in a photo taken during
the Apollo 15 moon mission.

***

Update: June 28, 2007

It
appears that William Rutledge (aka retiredafb) has used part of the audio feed
from the Apollo 15 mission for the alleged Apollo 20 videos he uploaded onto the
web. If you listen to the audio at the start of the following video concerning
the ancient moon city uploaded by Rutledge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbncnnygZwk
) you will hear the following words:

Presto chango; there's the TV.

[Pause]
Oh, beautiful, I'm glad to hear that.

These are identical words to part
of a dialogue from an actual Apollo 15 mission. The Apollo 15 audio can be heard
here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15v.1210530.rm . The actual transcript
is available here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.lrvload.html
(go to: 121:05:30).

It looks as though Rutledge has simply uploaded some
genuine Apollo 15 audio on to his moon city video. That suggests that his videos
and story are part of an elaborate hoax. For some, this discovery will suffice
to dismiss the whole affair and conclude that the alleged Apollo 20 mission was
entirely contrived. However, this does raise the question of what the underlying
agenda of Rutledge is in performing such an elaborate deception? Is it merely
to disinform the public or to direct the public's attention to something important?
Given the extensive work that has gone into producing the videos and the possibility
that security concerns may have influenced Rutledge's method, this merits exploring
the second possibilty.

Another
thing to consider is the alleged date of the Apollo 20 mission in 1976, just one
year after the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975. I have already mentioned the
insignia problem for a joint US/USSR mission in my initial commentary that a joint
mission insignia was not correctly depicted in Rutledge's Apollo 20 videos. Rutledge
is probably here suggesting that there may have been joint secret mission to discover
more about the artifact depicted in the Apollo 15 photo, but its actual name was
not Apollo 20 which would have signified solely a US space mission.

Confidence
in the authenticity of the videos uploaded by Rutledge is significantly eroded
by discovery of him using Apollo 15 audio for his alleged Apollo 20 video. There
is nevertheless a possibility that something important was discovered during the
Apollo 15 & 17 missions that justified a joint secret US/USSR mission to investigate.
Rutledge may be conveying this information by a combination of genuine information
and deliberate deception. At this stage, the most sensible conclusion is that
the alleged Apollo 20 mission is a fabrication, but the artifact in the Apollo
15 and 17 photos may have great significance. The photo may have led to a covert
effort to investigate and this is what underscores Rutledge's fabrication of a
secret Apollo 20 mission.

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